The other face of public television : censoring the American dream / Roger P. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Roger P. (Roger Phillips), 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public television--United States.

Public television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An insider's story of how the dream of an alternative to commercial television became American State Television: Public television was brought into being to release a developing communications medium from the constraints of narrow commercialism. As it tur

Contents:

Dreams of a better world

The other face of public television

Private airwaves

The matrix of an era : shifting definitions of cause

Edward R. Murrow : anomaly

Commercial television's seminal discovery

An inchoate leadership

Poor but honest in "The American century"

The invalidization of educational TV

Why "educational" TV dried up

The state to the rescue!

The cloven hoof

Nixon's coup

From Nixon's office of telecommunications policy to the "Reagan revolution"

Not-so-benign neglect

Knuckling under, getting the grants

Creativity by committee

The team as organizational model

TV journalism as literature, as theater, as sport

Who makes the rules, anyway?

The root of all television, too

How programs really get produced

The self-interest/public interest equation

"Underwriting" for whom?

Elitism versus multiculturalism

Programs as product : forty years of capital formation

The culture of consumerism

What kind of future anyway, Mr. Marx?

The basket case, with a smile

Survey the territory, devise a method

TV as art

Let's try education, for a change!

A manifesto

Still hope for reason

TV and the national destiny : move aside, consumerism, move aside GDP.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-316) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-65625-5

1-892941-43-0

OCLC:

476113847